A Teaser

This week’s teaser is from the first chapter of Someone At A Distance by Dorothy Whipple. I’ve heard a lot of great things about her writing.

Widowed, in the house her husband had built with day and night nurseries and a music-room, as if the children would stay there for ever, instead of marrying and going off at the earliest possible moment, old Mrs. North yielded one day to a long-felt desire to provide herself with company. She answered an advertisement in the personal column of The Times.